Phuket Town

So with all the rain we had had at the national park the roads around the towns were flooded, and I mean really flooded. Lots of people use small motor bikes here but they were just been walked through water well up around the body of the bike. It was quite interesting to see how the locals coped- they were all stood about outside their homes keeping an eye on it. Some had built little damns and others had created small trenches so that the water was guided away from their properties. Most of the houses were the sort where the ground floor acts as storage and a garage- they go through this every year!



With all the bad weather the bus was sooo slow so it was quite late by the time we reached Phuket Town (well its now a city!) we were not planning on heading to the beach here it was more of stop over before KO Phi Phi.



There was not much to do that evening, it was mid week and the bar with live music that Greg found was shut (he looks for one at every town!)



There are lots of old Chinese shop houses around Phuket. The ground floor will be a shop for the first part but then behind it will stretch the living quarters and garden with sleeping quarters upstairs. They really don't look that big from the front but the stretch back for ages. The frontages will be nicely decorated with tiles and bright paint. We had had a drink in one that had been restored and made into a Chinese tea house it was lovely. And then it was time to head for more islands.